Puzzle.



No. 629,527. A Pafented July 25, I899.

A. 8:. A. A. SHEPHERD.

PUZZLE.

(Application filed Oct. 31, 1898.)

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No. 629,527. Patented July 25, I899. A. &. A. A. SHEPHERD.

PUZZLE.

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ALFRED SHEPHERD AND ALFRED ALBERT SHEPHERD, OF BIRMINGHAM,

' ENGLAND.

PUZZLE.

SIFECIUEICA'IIOhl' forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,527, dated July 25, 1899. Application filed October 31,1898. Serial No. 695,116. (No model.)

To all w/wrn it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED SHEPHERD and ALFRED ALBERT SHEPHERD, subjects of the Queen of England, and residents of Birmingham, countyof Warwick, England, have invented a certain new and Improved Puzzle, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has for its object a new or improved puzzle, which is as follows:

We make in cardboard, metal, or any suitable material the representation or drawing or outline of a face, whether of man or beast, or the drawing of any body. We then cut or sever it into a number of partsor sections which so fit together as to constitute one Whole, the lines or divisions following marks on the face or other object,-so as not to be clearly seen at a glance. We then make a box or case of timber, cardboard, metal, or other material having a recess in the bottom of the box or case into which the head or other representation easily fits, so as to hold the several parts together. The box or case is then covered and sealed with a glass or transparent front sufficiently above the representation or representations, for there may be several, to allow the parts to move about freely. When the severalsections or parts are in confusion in the box, the puzzle is to put them or bring them into orderly arrangement without opening the box.

In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into practical effect, we have appended hereunto two sheets of drawings upon which we have illustratedtwo examples of our new puzzle.

Figure 1 is a View of our puzzle, showing the parts which form the figure brought together and fitting in the recess formed in the box A, so as to form the complete figure. Fig. 2 is a view showing the parts or sections which form the figure shown by Fig. l in confusion in the box. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional View taken through the line 00 y in Fig. 1. Fig. 4

is a similar View to Fig. 1, showing a different figure divided into different sections. Fig.

5 is a view showing the parts or sections which form the figure shown by Fig. 4 in confusion in the box.

In carrying our invention into practice we form the figure B by cutting or stamping it out of a blank sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material by suitable press-tools or by other means. ure into' a number of parts or sections, as shown at Fig. 2, which when fitted together constitute the one whole figure, as shown at Fig. 1, the lines or divisions following marks on the figure,so as to be as little perceptible as possible. We then make the box or case A of cardboard, wood, metal, or other material, in the bottom of which we fit the blank I), from which the figure B has been cut, so that when this figure is placed in position it exactly fits the recess or space b in the bottom of the boxthat is to say, the recess or space I) be ing shaped to exactly correspond to the out line of the figure B holds the several parts together when placed in their respective positions. It will be evident that we may cut the recess b in the bottom of the box instead of fitting the blank 1) into the bottom of the box. This box or case is then covered or sealed with the transparent front a, which stands sufficiently above the figure B to allow the several parts to move freely about. When the, several parts or sections which compose the figure B are in confusion in the box, as

shown at Fig. 2, the puzzle is to bring them into their respective positions, so as to form the complete figure, as shown at Fig. 1, by jostling only and Without opening the box.

At Figs. t and 5 we have shown the figure D, which represents a cricketer standing at the wickets ready to receive the ball. This figure is onlyv divided into five parts and is made in the same manner as the figure shown at Figs. 1 and 2, so as to fit into the space 01 It will, however, be evident that either the figure B or the figure D may be divided into a greater or less number of sections and also that instead of having one figure there may We then cut or sever this figbe several figures or representations, the puzand adapted to be selectively jostledinto said zle being to place or bring the several secrecess, substantially as described.

tions of each figure or figures into their re- In witness whereof we have hereunto set spective positions, so as to form one complete our hands in presence of two witnesses. 5 af gf g ALFRED SHEPHERD.

' 1 .7 A puzzle comprising a box or case having ALFRED ALBER1 SHEPHERD a transparent cover and a figure-shaped re- \Vitnesses: cess in the bottom thereof, and a plurality of v SYDNEY LAKE,

10 sections movably mounted upon said bottom E. S. FRIEND. 

